Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 136
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“There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”
(continued from previous page)The divil kicked up and awful row inside but he couldn't get out. He asked the smith to let him out and he would give him another year but the smith wouldn't hear of it. The divil then told him if he'd let him out he wouldn't trouble him any more. So the smith let him out. Then the divil went off with himself and the smith went back to his work.
He lived away now quite contended with himself. He got fairly well off and never was in want from the time the divil let him to the day he died. When he died he went to gate of heaven and he wouldn't be let in there for they told(continues on next page)